[WikiEN-l] Scope of this mailing list

[Phil Nash]

Carcharoth wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Carcharoth
> <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> but I won't see any replies to that mailing list as I'm not
>> subscribed there.
>
> Seems like I should subscribe:
>
> "Due to a large amount of spam, emails from non-members of this list
> are now automatically rejected. If you have a valuable contribution to
> the list but would rather not subscribe to it, please send an email to
> <e-mail address> and we will forward your post to the list."
>
> Has spam overwhelmed moderation of all the mailing lists, or is it
> only the WMF mailing list?
>
> Carcharoth

For operational reasons, I am subscribed to about 6 lists under the WMF 
umbrella, and am only aware of the problem on the Foundation list itself.